ronk wrote:If they need an Irish back row, it could be Ryan out, Ryan in.

Don't think it's that likely though.

Maybe it is unlikely, but Dom Ryan would be exactly what Munster need in the backrow. He could play 6 when O'Mahony is injured or with Ireland and O'Callaghan is injured or needed in the second row. And there's not much depth behind Oliver and O'Donnell at openside, so maybe he could fill in there a bit as well. Might sound as if that would put him quite far down the pecking order, but Deysel got a fair amount of gametime playing a similar role

I'd say the Scarlets opened the curtains this morning and just wanted to go back to bed. The conditions massively favour Munster IMO. Hope they do it, it'd be some achievement after the season they've had and how things were over the last couple of seasons.

Obviously for the sentimental reasons I wish them the best today. That said it would probably be better for the league if the recent run of less fancied teams winning continued. Munster haven't won a trophy in six years, Scarlets in 13.

Datta: what have we given?My friend, blood shaking my heartThe awful daring of a moment's surrenderWhich an age of prudence can never retract What the thunder said to Brian Lenihan